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White House Warriors – Most Presidential Hopefuls Have Served in Uniform
With the results of Monday’s U.S. presidential debates still being parsed by the media, a San Diego-area newspaper has covered a little-reported aspect of the 2012 race for the Oval Office : This is the first…
Fightin’ Irish – How America’s Fenian Brotherhood Waged War on the British Empire
“To the Fenian Brotherhood, the campaign to seize Canada seemed entirely plausible. Unfortunately for them, things just didn’t work out that way.” IN 1866, one of the strangest armies in American history marched off to war….
Article Reveals Three Amazing Secrets About Cuban Missile Crisis
Fifty years ago this week, the United States and the Soviet Union stood on the brink of war. At issue was a bold move by Moscow to place nuclear weapons in Cuba in the form…
Eureka Moments — Seven Everyday Inventions That Came From Warfare
“An array of peacetime products, ideas and amenities that civilians now use on a daily basis, were all pioneered during the major wars of the past 200 years.” HUMAN CONFLICT has driven innovation. All manner of…
Operation Unthinkable — Inside Churchill’s Proposed 1945 Surprise Attack on the Soviets
“It is to an early and speedy showdown and settlement with Russia that we must now turn our hopes.” WHILE THE WORLD celebrated the defeat of Nazism in May of 1945, one of the architects of…
Big Shots – History’s Largest Cannons, Mortars and Super Guns
“Iraq’s ‘super gun’, while certainly mammoth, was just one in a long series of ultra-heavy artillery pieces that have appeared throughout history. Consider these other ‘big shots’.” FEW TODAY LIKELY remember the name Gerard Bull. Yet…
